S. Gulph Rd. over Gulph Creek, Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Montgomery.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 22, 1988. NRIS 88000832.
1 contributing structure.
Bridge in Upper Merion Township is a historic stone arch bridge located at Gulph Mills in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania. The bridge crosses Gulph Creek, and was built in 1789. It has a single 20-foot-long (6.1 m) span with a width of 34 feet (10.4 m), and an overall length of 100-foot (30 m).
The bridge's datestone features an archaic spelling of Federal:
The Bridge in Upper Merion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. As of August 2021, it was the fifth-oldest bridge in use in the United States.
In 2021, the bridge structure was repaired and rehabilitated by contractor J.D. Eckman, with 100% funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, also known as PennDOT.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993382